Seki Nobuhide Sensei, a martial arts and katana instructor, rates portrayals of samurai battles in movies and TV shows. He explains why samurai employed different types of spears in battle in "Shogun.

The samurai are renowned as skilled warriors, but were any of them women?

Nathan Algren survives Katsumoto’s final battle in The Last Samurai and helps Emperor Meiji understand what the samurai died ...

The first episode of HBO's new live-action adaptation, Song of the Samurai, finds an excellent balance between Shogun-like ...

In the breathless opening one-er of Last Samurai Standing, samurai protagonist Shujiro Saga (Junichi Okada, also a producer and action choreographer) cuts through dozens of men as he charges across a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time Become Samurai Jack, the greatest warrior across time. Journey through time to finally stop Aku’s evil reign in this new ...

We think of samurai as fearsome warriors – and they were, said Neil Fisher in The Sunday Times. Yet if you visit Nomura Residence, an “elegant” house in the Japanese city of Kanazawa where generations ...